Motorola cans CLIQ XT’s Android 2.1 update; CLIQ XT

If you’re the owner of a Motorola CLIQ XT from T-Mobile, you’re not going to like this news. Via its user forums, Motorola has announced that plans to update the device to Android 2.1 have been cancelled; leaving the handset and its users stuck on Android 1.5. As the post reads: “After comprehensive testing of the Android 2.1 upgrade for the CLIQ XT, we have concluded that this device will remain on Android 1.5. We realize many of you were anxiously awaiting this upgrade, but we aim to deliver software upgrades only when it will provide a better customer experience.” Ouch. That stings. It seems like you have to have a crystal ball when you buy an Android smartphone these days… will it get upgraded, or will it be allowed to wither on the vine? Hit the read link to see the grim news for yourself.

Buy an iPhone instead of an iPhone wannabe and you wont have this problem.

Kitsunisan

Unless you have the original iPhone and want the full iOS experience. Or the second gen iPhone. Or the iPhone 3g. Wait…

Helvetica

Yes, but the iPhone and iPhone 3G came out in 2007 and 2008 … the Motorola CLIQ XT came out less than a year ago (March 2010) and cannot even be upgrade to 2.1, which came out several months before the CLIQ (Jan 12 2010) and isn’t even the most recent OS release.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

The cliq XT can and has been upgraded to 2.1. It’s called ROOTING the phone.

dan. a

hahah has to be the worst argument ive heard in a while. you fail dude

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

Full iOS experience. That will be 10-12 years at the rate Apple moves.

Anonymous

Yeah but why would I want to be stuck with poor hardware specs and a lackluster OS?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

cannot blame you. Same reason i don’t want an iPhone.

Anonymous

Either you’re a troll or you saw that i was talking about the iphone. Either way I agree.

Anonymous

Bad Moto breaking promises

http://twitter.com/j_nathaniel Jason

If they would stop with the unnecessarily complex user interface overlays then this kind of thing would not be a problem.

Anonymous

Exactly! Not only does it take longer for them to roll out an update, but the skin usually takes away from the user experience more than it contributes.

Oh and nice pic, 330xi is how I roll.

Anonymous

But, but you can just root it and install a custom rom!

http://twitter.com/hawaiiinsomniac hawaiiinsomniac

that sux balls. no one like a reneger.

apachuka

Every time i try to read the name of the phone, the vagina comes in to my mind. Go try it, read it: CLIQ XT

Taharial

You know I just don’t see it. I like vagina. I look at cliq xt and see “bankrupt failure company”

http://twitter.com/TheBigNoob Ryan Fraser

Or if you’re smart, you wouldn’t buy something that looks like a child’s play thing.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545634778 Alan Paone

its weird, because a new version of android would bring the damn thing to life, android 2.3 is lighter and faster than android 1.0 was. even though it has more features.
How is it that the indie devs at cyanogenmod can crank out a stable release for more than a dozen devices (within a month), while a company that spends a billion dollars per year on R&D can’t make a newer, objectively better OS version into a good experience on their own device?

Taharial

Why you ask? Because they insist on integrating that damn BLUR into android and cannot figure out how to make it work with 2.1 on this phone. Devs at modmymobile can de blur 2.1 and make it work on this phone, even figure out how to get the speakerphone problem fixed. But moto will never ever release a vanillia android rom for this phone and this it is abandoned because of that blur crap.

If they didn’t integrate blur so deeply into android, they would not have these problems. The original cliq got a 2.1.update (albeit about 1 year after 2.1 came out) but the blur notification and happenings made the thing lag so bad it was unusable until you disabled them. And now, moto cannot figure out how to make blur play nice on the cliq xt which was a newer phone than the original cliq. And that is why I no longer but phones with manufacturer UI. No more blur

Tn7871

” It seems like you have to have a crystal ball when you buy an Android smartphone these days… will it get upgraded, or will it be allowed to wither on the vine?”
Nice editorial. Guess what? That’s the price you pay for having an Android phone. Nobody I know keeps their phone for more than a year anyway, so unless you’re getting the cheapest one available, it’s only “outdated” for a few months at the most.

Anonymous

hahahah that makes me laugh so hard, owning a Nexus One and now a Nexus S..!! hahah